Exeunt Stage Left
...Performance art
embracing the artist
The magic of youth
alive on the stage
Time takes direction
from a glorious past
The memories an encore
— forever to stay
(Dreamsleep: September, 2024) ...
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Categories:
exeunt, art,
Form: Free verse
'What A Wonderful World'
...Louis Armstrong …
a class by himself
Not Dixie or Jazz
but much deeper felt
Growing better with age
his music enthralls
If fourteen or forty
his melodies call
Both Ella and Ray
are seate...
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Categories:
exeunt, music,
Form: Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iv
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IV
Anti-Vegan Manifesto
by Michael R. Burch
Let us
avoid lettuce,
sincerely,
and also celery!
Rising Fall
by Michael R. Burch
after Keats
Seasons ...
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Categories:
exeunt, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Evergreen
...??EVERGREEN??
Green Panther, does wearing green
Or being homegrown and living as indigene
equals patriotism and makes you ever green?
Does staying or returning to your home country
signifies p...
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Categories:
exeunt, 1st grade, destiny, life,
Form: Rondeau
The Call
...Awake,listen!The echo's in the land,
The call to humanity quakes the
global root,
The roses in respect bow,for the
call's so grand;
A voice of resolution to the corroded
planet.
Quick!Exeunt t...
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Categories:
exeunt, care, creation, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Acting Yourself -- Your Self
...I
If the Universe came into being Itself
As a quantum vacuum
Which is never totally empty
Never devoid of all particles and energy
Then, one-actor is the Source
Of everything there is!
If all...
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Categories:
exeunt, bible, international, irony, magic,
Form: Free verse
If the Poem
...if the poem tastes too sweet
add a pinch of salt
if the poem tickles you
wear medieval armour
if the poem hits a nerve
numb yourself into submission
if the poem scratches you
place glove...
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Categories:
exeunt, writing,
Form: Free verse
Minnie
...MINNIE
Entrant.
Act One. Scene Five. A voyage into The Minnie.
Never embark on this imagination without Me
Como dije, te ves hermosa
With gusto sing I the booty song with every strength I can ...
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Categories:
exeunt, 1st grade, feelings, for
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mcpoetry Soup
...Welcome to McPoetry Soup. May I take your order, please?
Sure. Give me a McSonnet and a McSoda.
What would you like on your McSonnet?
Oh. How about a McMetaphor and a McSimile?
Well, we'...
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Categories:
exeunt, food, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Awkward Conversation
...Are we friends out of circumstance?
If we met now would I spare you a glance?
There’s this voice in the back of my head
that occasionally fills me with dread.
It says that you’ll be the one to wa...
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Categories:
exeunt, best friend, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Why Mr Anderson Why
...WHY MR ANDERSON WHY
The underdog, none new under the sun
For the top dogs, there we see Miss Ferguson
Doing the homespun trying to go nuts
Furiously livid like she had a blunt
Exeunt, is where ...
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Categories:
exeunt, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A Brief Tango
...- a brief tango -
I see from this pestering pedestal,
And what’s that I see?
Gazelles and antelopes of the Savannah
Or the deceits of a mooting brain?
I see them – a careful pick of a genera...
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Categories:
exeunt, adventure, break up, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Self-Made Stage - With Apologies To the Bard
...Somewhere deep in the recesses of one's heart
A tiny voice speaks of love and compassion
Of what one could be, if one chose, even now for a start,
But want it one must with an all-encompassing pa...
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Categories:
exeunt, deep, feelings, introspection, truth,
Form: Free verse
Joyless Joseph
...Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
Essence easily evaporates, exeunt Emile.
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Categories:
exeunt, crazy, creation, imagination, ,
Form: Alliteration
Mea Culpa, Extol Belles-Lettres
...The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the daggled the minder harks,
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Categories:
exeunt, adventure, imagination, nature, on
Form: Free verse
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